Re: [Python-Dev] Single- vs. Multi-pass iterability

What's the reason for using xreadlines as a file iterator? Was it performance or was it just the easiest way to implement it using an existing object?

I thought this was answered adequately by my last entry in the SF bug report. The short answer is performance in the common case. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)